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{Dark Chocolate Brownie}

This brownie is so good that I feel like I need to make an acceptance speech, I want to shout, I can cook brownies!!! actually I did shout that and do a little dance which freaked out the wee peas a bit, but you see I've never really made a perfect brownie, never one that I am super proud of, the dense, fudgy, moist (sorry George) kind of brownie.

I actually still can't believe it came out of my oven, as soon as Jay got home from work I rushed to him with a slice on a plate and said "look, just look at it, its perfect !!!!" So to my speech, I'd like to thank Shara for reading my blog (and liking it) and for listening to me whine about my brownie baking deficiencies which resulted in her sharing with me Bill Grangers recipe, brownies are now officially on the list of things I can cook.

Preheat the oven to 160 or drop it to 150 if your oven is fan forced only like mine. Line a 22cm square baking tin with baking paper. Whisk together the sugar, cocoa powder, flour and baking powder in a bowl. Mix in the lightly beaten eggs, cooled butter and vanilla until combined, and then lastly mix thru the chopped chocolate. Pour into the tin and bake for 40-45 minutes. Leave to cool in the tin for ten minutes, then using the baking paper pick it up and pop it onto a wire rack.

Little tips re the baking time, (I suffer a bit with anxiety when it comes to timing brownies) it needs to feel set when you press it in the middle but a skewer should not come out clean, it will come away from the edge of the tin a bit, and its better to undercook it than overcook it.

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WOW! OMG! Ok - one question??? WHERE IS MY PIECE????? come on fairy - deliver the goods or I wont believe you ;-)) Nah....i do believe you coz you are just such a Godess in the kitchen! I can just imagine you dancing a little jig -he he he he he!! xx

i think my letterbox fairy is on strike or just plain lazy, she has a little jar here to deliver to you .... the brownie however vanished, I made it for dinner with aaron & george and well 5 boys and 1 me = brownie all gone :(

I have come to learn that, if the photo of a choc brownie shows it to be moist, then the brownie must be decadent in real life. That pic just makes my tummy rumble. I'll go put the kettle on, would ya mind couriering me a few to South Africa!?

That certainly does look like a brownie to sing and dance about. I know what you mean too, I have made several un-brownie like brownies in the past until I tried Plum Kitchens but I think I will give yours ago too

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